Claudia Lewis
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Claudia Lewis
@MBDscience
Lead Practitioner | writer | chaotic trad | educational highwayman | likes/follows ≠ agreement | views mine


In January 2019, Ofsted released the research underpinning the (now defunct) Education Inspection Framework. In it, they slammed "differentiation" and promoted "adaptive teaching." They cited research, which is great, and in broad thrust, I don't think what they said is wrong. BUT They did not really fully define either term. They did not provide much by way of exemplification. The example they used for "adaptive teaching" was "by providing focused support to pupils who are not making progress, is likely to improve outcomes" Ok, what does that mean? In class? Out of class? Booster or intervention sessions? LSAs? Who knows! That report was a summary, so as far as it goes that was all fine. But now we have a situation where off the back of it we have moved wholesale as an industry from a set of practices that sucked, to...what? A term which can mean absolutely anything to anyone. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6034be17…

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In January 2019, Ofsted released the research underpinning the (now defunct) Education Inspection Framework. In it, they slammed "differentiation" and promoted "adaptive teaching." They cited research, which is great, and in broad thrust, I don't think what they said is wrong. BUT They did not really fully define either term. They did not provide much by way of exemplification. The example they used for "adaptive teaching" was "by providing focused support to pupils who are not making progress, is likely to improve outcomes" Ok, what does that mean? In class? Out of class? Booster or intervention sessions? LSAs? Who knows! That report was a summary, so as far as it goes that was all fine. But now we have a situation where off the back of it we have moved wholesale as an industry from a set of practices that sucked, to...what? A term which can mean absolutely anything to anyone. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6034be17…




This needs to be called out.









